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Shunt   /ʃənt/   Listen
noun
Shunt  n.  
1.
(Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
2.
(Elec.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.
3.
(Gunnery) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
Shunt dynamo (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to maintain the field.
Shunt gun, a firearm having shunt rifling. See under Rifling.


verb
Shunt  v. t.  (past & past part. shunted; pres. part. shunting)  
1.
To shun; to move from. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
3.
To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift. "For shunting your late partner on to me."
4.
(Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.


Shunt  v. i.  To go aside; to turn off.





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"Shunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... eternal pointsmen lying in wait by the line, to shunt one's train of thought from ...
— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore
... officer, chief engineer, and myself, and, of course, the Company's general manager at Sydney, know of it; even my own bedroom steward has no idea that there is a second safe, although he turns out my cabin twice a week for a general cleaning. If he did discover the fact, I should have to shunt him at once, as he is quite a new ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... that's a poor compliment to yourself surely, to think I'd run away from you as soon as I saw your eyes were closed. No, no, I've got charge of you till you are well and strong again, though maybe I'll have hard work to shunt you at all then, you'll be so used to being nursed. But I had to come and drive while I sent the old man on ahead to get the door open and a fire alight so as to give you something hot to cheer you as soon as ...
— The Rider of Waroona • Firth Scott
... time being, never rose to the dignity of a cinema. Like the inhabitants of a certain country village in the North of England, if you wanted distraction at Ludd you went to the station and watched the trains shunt. ...
— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett
... reasonable, ain't it? Three quid ain't much compensation for me goin' away for ever—where the stormy winds do blow, so to say—an' never as much as seein' me own wife agin for better nor wuss. Between man an' man, now, three quid, an' I'll shunt. That's fair, ain't it?" ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various


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